SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) - Lot 917

Lot 917
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SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) - Lot 917
SÉNAC (Jean-Baptiste) Traité de la structure du Coeur, de son Action et de ses Maladies. Paris, Briasson, 1749. 2 volumes in-4 : XLIV, 2f, 504pp, 1f. (errata) ; 17 folding plates (engraved by Robert and de Poilly after Potier) in fine / 2f., 694pp. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, blond title-pieces and tomaisons, double cold fillet framing the boards, arms of France in the centre of one board, gilt roulette on the edges, red edges. A good copy. First edition of this work considered as one of the first and clearest treatises on the structure and diseases of the heart. The author was the first to give a good description of the coronaries and to prescribe quinine against palpitations. Provenance: Double ex-libris Claudii-Antonii Joyand and Zlatko Ivan Pozec.
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